pain threshold

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Having recently had my second CS and this time I needed a drain apparently.
Having it taken out with only paracetamol and voltrol as pain relief, and asking the MW to stop twice because it was as if somebody was standing on my wound and pulling, I wondered whether anything could be more painful.

Say that giving birth is a 10, what is your pain threshold? Have you experienced anything more painful than childbirth?

I used to nthink that injections and blood taking were painful but not anymore!

I agree with the verrucas thing - had about 4 treated on both feet with liquid nitrogen. OW OW OW.
Found the fever and full body aches of swine flu were worse than labour to be honest. I'd rather go through labour again if given the choice between the two.

tooth abscess, so much more painful than childbirth. I've had 2 children, one with epidural etc, the other with just TENS and warm water for pain relief. That bloody abscess was way more painful than either birth. I sobbed all night, couldn't think of anything except the pain.

Only had one birth so far and had lots of intervention and drugs so don't really remember the pain so much as I would have liked to IYSWIM.

Most painful things I've experienced are appendicitis and my milk coming in. Pouring boiling water on my leg was pretty damn painful too - especially in the middle of the Australian desert as the dry heat made it so much worse!

Have three experiences of childbirth, two back to back which was hellish in itself. However, childbirth is totally eclipsed by ecv coupled with bad spd.

Morphine? Oh, I think so.

Actually, I also agree with calminsomniac - I had flu followed by bronchitis at Christmas. It is the only time I have ever actually wanted to die. And meant it.

But that wasn't as painful, just utterly horrible.

Having my arm manually manipulated into position after a very nasty break with just paracetamol. I later found out that nowadays they won't do that without a G.A.
That hurt a lot more than childbirth at least they gave me drugs for that!
I also found the recovery from childbirth pretty difficult too with just paracetamol and severe constipation. At one point I wanted to go back into hospital!

i had fibroid degeneration with DS1 when PG and that was actually more painful than (natural) childbrth

maxbear me too! Verrucas being done much much worse than giving birth. I screamed so much having my verrucas done, didn't scream at all giving birth. Possibly something to do with my freakishly sensitive and ticklish feet?

episiotomy!!! the doc apparently anaethetised me but i felt every inch (all flippin 3+ inches) of it throughout my WHOLE body, screamed my head off. good side to this? barely remember the contractions! bad side? post-traumatic stress or what. (don't mean to scare-monger, think most episiotomies are far less traumatic!)

I had a tooth abscess two weeks ago, and I found it far less painful than childbirth, at least ibruprofen numbs the pain, ditto root canal surgery.

Mind you I did give birth with no pain relief whatsoever, except a tens machine which I couldn't operate as I was in too much pain.